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Helen Sedcole, the Chief People and Culture officer at Z Energy, discuss how they are approaching leadership and leadership development for a different future. There is no pushing people through standard modules and declaring that they are 'done.' Rather leadership development is seen as continuous process that it is part of everyone's work to take responsibility for and engage within the context...

Today's episode marks the milestone of Learning Uncut's 100th episode. Nigel Paine joins us to mark this special milestone. He has a short conversation with our regular host, Michelle Ockers, about how she finds stories and guests, and puts the podcast together. The first episode came out on the 12th of June 2018. Four years later, we've had 118 guests who have willingly talked about their work in...

Lil Ryan from Anglicare SA and James Stack from Obvious Choice discuss the use of a mobile learning app by frontline workers in the aged care sector. This story is an excellent example for those who are interested in using evidence informed approaches from learning science to improve the effectiveness of learning solutions in their organisation. The app used spaced repetition and retrieval practic...

In the wake of the shift to remote working during the pandemic the need to connect and collaborate effectively was amplified. We continue to explore what this looks like in evolving hybrid working models. At the same time there has been a resurgence of interest in social and collaborative learning. In the 2022 Global Sentiment Survey recently published by Donald H Taylor we saw a global rise in su...

In this episode of Learning Uncut I speak with Peta Pocock about how leadership development has changed at the Australian Bureau of Statistics since the start of the pandemic. The shift to remote work gave their L&D team to the opportunity to innovate. This is an archetypal story of learning innovation during covid times. Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources:   https://learningun...

Emma Evans, the Oceania Women's Football Manager and Annie Kennedy from Capability Group discuss the Oceania Women's Football Development capacity building program. While this development program preceded the Oceania Women's Football Strategy, it's one of a series of initiatives that is giving women more opportunities in the game and is using football as a tool for social change across eleven Paci...

Jane Calleja discusses how Weber develops the product knowledge and confidence of independent retailers to sell their range of barbecues. When covid limitations and travel restrictions made face-to-face workshops impossible they had to come up with a new approach to provide the critical elements of a product and flavour experience. In a period of skyrocketing demand in the homemaker segment in 202...

Boldness is the willingness, confidence and courage to take risks. The recent Learning Uncut Emergent series explored core strengths that L&D needs to take bold action. In today's solo Elevate episode Michelle Ockers discusses why it's important for L&D to take bold action right now. While gaining credibility and respect are strong internal motivators for many, there is a far greater calling for L...

Explore the use of interactive 360 Virtual Reality simulation for training on protocols for acute stroke patient hospital admission. Jatinder Minhas, consultant physician in an acute stroke team, and video director Laura Cade from Video Interact discuss how the video was planned, filmed and produced, and the rich, high-fidelity user experience. This is a great example of learning innovation genera...

What do you do when you can't find the technology that you need to realise your vision for digital learning in your organisation? When faced with this situation Siva Kulasingam form Coles Group went out to the market to find a partner who was bold and open enough to experiment, test and learn with them. He is joined by Rod Beach from Liberate Learning to discuss how they took risks and pushed boun...

Emergent podcast hosts Michelle Ockers, Shannon Tipton and Laura Overton discuss key themes from Season 2: Emerging Stronger – Taking Bold Action.  In this season we explored the core strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. In the first five episodes of the season we spoke with five L&D professionals about the their experience of taking bold action, the core strengths they drew...

After speaking with five L&D professionals about their personal experience taking bold action it's time to bring in expertise from other domains. What can we learn from behavioural science to help us develop core strengths to take bold action? Andrea Day shares insights from her work leading Best At Digital, who draw upon behavioural science extensively to design and develop digital solutions that...

After speaking with five L&D professionals about their personal experience taking bold action it's time to bring in expertise from other domains as we explore strengths for L&D to take bold action. Change is the key theme of this discussion. Psychologist, Dr Celine Mullins, shares insights from cutting edge research in neurobiology and neuroscience on how we can play the inner game to support bold...

Exploring strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. We ask Catherine Tibbs and Dinye Hernanda, participants in the Emerging Stronger 2021 masterclass, three big questions: What are the opportunities for L&D professionals who seek to create change and impact? When the going gets tough, what core strengths help L&D professionals to thrive? What can we do to build these strengths? Ho...

Exploring strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. We ask Myra Roldan three big questions: What are the opportunities for L&D professionals who seek to create change and impact? When the going gets tough, what core strengths help L&D professionals to thrive? What can we do to build these strengths? Host :   Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.g...

Exploring strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. We ask Hayley Curcio three big questions: What are the opportunities for L&D professionals who seek to create change and impact? When the going gets tough, what core strengths help L&D professionals to thrive? What can we do to build these strengths? Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.gl...

Exploring strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. Laura Overton asks Adam Harwood three big questions: What are the opportunities for L&D professionals who seek to create change and impact? When the going gets tough, what core strengths help L&D professionals to thrive? What can we do to build these strengths? Host :   Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://le...

Exploring strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. We ask Damien Woods three big questions: What are the opportunities for L&D professionals who seek to create change and impact? When the going gets tough, what core strengths help L&D professionals to thrive? What can we do to build these strengths? Host :   Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut....

Emergent podcast hosts Michelle Ockers, Shannon Tipton and Laura Overview preview the new series: Emerging Stronger – Taking Bold Action.    This series will explore strengths that L&D professionals need to take bold action. We ask our guests three big questions: What are the opportunities for L&D professionals who seek to create change and impact? When the going gets tough, what core strengths he...

Donald H Taylor joins me for a look at what we saw happening in learning and development in 2021. We look at the year through the lenses of our own work and network interactions, industry events and, of course, the case studies shared by guests on the Learning Uncut podcast. Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/92/ Podcast information and mor...

How learning and development professionals can elevate their learning and impact by improving their conversations about business – and with business. Let's Talk Business is a 5-day email challenge from the Emerging Stronger team (Laura Overton, Shannon Tipton and Michelle Ockers) to help you continually sharpen your conversations about business value – both with yourself and with your stakeholders...

Exploring the shift in learning over the past three years at the New Zealand retail group, Briscoe, with Aston Moss, GM of Human Resources and partner Drew McGuire from Capability Group. While the introduction of the Axonify platform enabled these shifts, the critical success factors were L&D team capability, stakeholder engagement, change management and strong partnership. Host: Michelle Ockers T...

How professionals can elevate their learning and impact through successful self-directed learning. Resources: Catherine Lombardozzi LinkedIn profile GO TO RESOURCE Register for Learning Uncut webinar on 9 December 2021 – Professional Development for Busy People, with Catherine Lombardozzi GO TO RESOURCE   Becoming Future-Ready Through Self-Directed Learning, (Video) L&D Cares Career Growth Summit...

Blackmores Institute educates Blackmore's customers and consumers about natural health care products, including their own brands. They consistently focus on providing education solutions that create impact for their customers who primarily work in pharmacies. This focus guides what solutions they develop, what approaches they test, how they design solutions and how they measure and evaluate outcom...

How learning and development professionals can elevate their learning and impact by using data in the flow of learning. Host:   Michelle Ockers Resources: Josh Humphries LinkedIn profile GO TO RESOURCE Guroo Producer website GO TO RESOURCE Data in the flow of learning – a series of four blogs from Guroo Producer GO TO RESOURCE Learning Uncut Episode 36: Lessons in Data-Driven Learning – Clay Shear...